Most big bale farmers around here use bale wagons to pick up their bales in the fields. We do it differently, more efficiently (at least in my opinion). I realized after I watched this that I mumbled a lot so you can’t hear most of what I’m saying. You can hear the important parts though. 😛 The haze in the air is a result of the smoke from the wildfires in Northern California.
Mr. Ferrero Rocher is almost always driving one of the loaders. Today he was in the stackyard unloading trucks.
And that’s it folks. Now it’s back to turning pivots off and on, servicing equipment, de-tumbleweeding the fences, catching up on zzzz’s, loading hay trucks from California and harvesting the triticale. They started cutting it on Wednesday. It’ll be raked and baled just like the hay. Then in about 3-4 weeks we start second crop.
Thanks so much for this week! It was really interesting! I am in your FHE swap with Melanie, and I always check your site, but have never commented. Anyway, it was very interesting and I let my kids watch everyday, my one and a half year old even started saying tractor afer watching all the videos. I love your site, thanks for all you do-Cambria
Wow! Farmers are absolutely amazing! I think they are too often taken for granted. Thanks for all you do!
This has been so fun to read about! Thank you for sharing and the effort you put into it!
I have learned so much from your posts about harvesting hay. I now know why there are those circles on the ground that I can see when I fly. Farmers sure do work hard! Thanks for all the effort.
We too are having hazy weather. But then we are in California. With fires north and south of us we are in for smoke and such in the air no mater which way the wind blows.
I had no idea how hay became hay bales. Amazing! The pivots (I hope I used the term correctly) are beautiful in your photos.
Very nice to watch the video’s! Makes me miss Nevada! Thanks for bringing back some memories!
I’ve not been very good at commenting lately, but have have loved the farm photo’s and seeing how the hay operation works. It looks like you’ve gotten it down to an art!